"Get out!" Was the only reply Lee got when he went to meet Elder Shen.
Lee kind of hoped to use their relatively normal relationship and previous familiarity to ask her to give him a mission to go to the Celestial Abyss sect. She was the elder leading the Mission Hall, and surely now and then there was some kind of interaction with the parent sect, but all he got was a finger pointing at the door and an angry stare.
After a longer physical training to calm his mind, Lee went to the library and asked junior elder Chen for an advice, but after he mentioned the Celestial Abyss, she turned cold and left. Fortunately she didn't throw him out, firing on the spot.
Lee didn't have that many acquaintances in the sect. He decided against consulting Chi Yanzhen and Li Hanchen. After all the two were close with Shen Rouya. That left only his young friend, whom he didn't take completely seriously, and Han Li.
